Just read an article by Jay Mathews entitled, “Life Habits Schools Can Teach”.   He’s got 8 concepts listed in this article from organization, music, teamwork, exercise, friendship, arguing, thinking critically, and presentation.  Whew!  Now I think these concepts are stellar and should be something that students learn and learn well during the course of their [...]

I’m not going to make any detailed comments on either team or talk about their season’s stats or X’s and O’s for that matter…this blog is really about looking past the game itself and exploring the overall concepts that anyone can take away…even those who don’t either like football nor watch it.  Today’s game is [...]

This article was written by Jack Gillum and Greg Toppo entitled “Failure Rate for AP Tests Climbing.” So my question is do we live in a world of “line drawn down the middle” realities? Now there’s another article I came across written by Jay Mathews entitled “Class Struggle.” When you take into consideration the myriad [...]